Ah, yeah so I was actually in Overland Park, not KC proper. But I understand that whole region is not nearly as flat as western Kansas. I just poked around in Google maps on some random big intersections and I can see that yeah there is a rolling raising or falling to the ground, but still every direction the horizon is just a horizon. I think that's what it really is. Like when I drive through rural areas outside of Seattle, even if I'm in a flat patch, the horizon is never flat - the horizon is big mountains. Maybe distant mountains, but mountains nonetheless.
I live in Southern California now, and it's still the same. You can set me down on any random rooftop at high noon and it wouldn't take any time to orient myself by looking to the horizons for the local mountains. In Seattle you can't even look across ocean water without seeing mountains on the other side.
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u/ForeignBarracuda8599 26d ago
Kansas City is full of rolling hills and valleys as well as a river running right through it?